An L.A. County Superior Court judge upheld a murder charge against former school security officer Eddie Gonzalez in the September shooting death of an 18-year-old girl.
Murder charges have been upheld against a former Long Beach school security officer who shot and killed an 18-year-old girl last year while she was seated in a vehicle fleeing the scene of a fight.
Gonzalez pulled up on the scene of a fight between Rodriguez and a 15-year-old girl on Palo Verde Avenue near Millikan High School and threatened to pepper-spray the girls if they didn’t stop brawling, according to testimony given Wednesday by Long Beach homicide Det. Ethan Schear. The dust-up between the girls stemmed from a fight between the 15-year-old and a friend of Rodriguez, which devolved into an online war of words, Schear said.
Only two witnesses were called during Wednesday’s hearing, Schear and Long Beach Det. Donald Collier. They relayed witness testimony that offered different explanations for why Rodriguez was near the school that day. “If there’s an argument of self-defense involved ... this at worst becomes a voluntary manslaughter case,” Schwartz said.
While the short cellphone video of the shooting helped the case gain national attention last year, Wednesday marked the first time that surveillance videos from nearby businesses and other recordings were made public. One recording showed Rodriguez and the girl wrestling in the street, where Rodriguez landed several punches before Gonzalez intervened. Police said the 15-year-old did not require medical attention, however, and Lowenthal described the fight as “minor.
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